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David Adu Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 Yaw Bediako Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo Yes, we are on most podcast platforms, including Google podcast. You can also listen at globalhealthunfiltered.com and YouTube

On #WorldTBDay2024, we are highlighting the voices of patient advocates fighting to End TB! 1. Nandita V shares her story of losing her hearing to TB and then taking on big Pharma to ensure access to safe and affordable TB medicines. @paimadhu Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá Émilie KB 🇨🇲🇫🇷

The problem of condescension in global health Listen to the full episode where we discuss the impact of religion on health in Africa with Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo, Yaw Bediako and Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 Available on all podcast platforms and on globalhealthunfiltered.com Subscribe and share. 🙏🙏

Why not write for our own journals? Why this need for validation? The Foreign gaze (Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá) revisited 🥹😢 Shapeshifters: Global South scholars and their tensions in border-crossing to Global North journals | BMJ Global Health gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0…


👏 👏 Congratulations to our co-founder Emmanuella Faith Amoako on being awarded an International Development and Education Award for her contribution to cancer research. Well done, Ella! We are proud of you and all you do to ensure access to cancer care for vulnerable children in Africa.


Excellent talk 🔥🔥🔥by Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 at Harvard Global Surgery today about the need to strengthen local and national #advocacy capacity for #globalsurgery. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽University of Global Health Equity Nkafu Policy Institute Operation Smile Abebe Bekele, MD Robert Riviello Harvard Medical School The G4 Alliance




What if we take a step ahead? Officially joined the neurosurgical family. Best to come. FIENS Women In Neurosurgery (WINS) Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery Society for Neuro-Oncology Sub-Saharan Africa Bello Figuim Gail Rosseau Laura Lippa, MD Ignatius Esene MD,M.Sc, PhD, MPH. Beverly Cheserem DM KABULO Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 Geneviève Endalle





‼️Season 4 Premiere‼️ Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá discusses the lasting impact of 'colonial love' in global health, the importance of local knowledge systems, USAID through the foreign gaze lens and more. Listen now at globalhealthunfiltered.com or any podcast app. Thank you Seye.

"The problem with aid is not that the US gives it or that it serves the US, [the problem] is that we have understood it to be charity, which it ought not to be" - Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá Listen to our season premiere on globalhealthunfiltered.com or any podcast app. Subscribe and rate

Looking forward to moderating the next Harvard Global Surgery #researchseminar with Ruben Ayala Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭! 🔥🔥🔥 #policy #advocacy #globalsurgery Operation Smile The G4 Alliance Global Surgery Journal Club Global Health Unfiltered @osglobalsurgery The Global Surgery Foundation pgssc.org/researchseminar



African governments have barely addressed how they plan to cover the huge gap in healthcare left by USAID suspension. Is it the aid dependency hangover or they simply don't care? Follow this interesting conversation on our recent episode on Global Health Unfiltered youtu.be/us86Y3HNToQ?si…